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Men and memories of San Francisco, in the "Spring of '50."

by: Barry, T. A. (Theodore Augustus), 1825-1881, author; Patten, B. A. (Benjamin Adam), 1825-1877, author

Publication date: 1873
Topics: Ethnic groups, Women, Urbanization, Real estate development, Law, Mines and mineral resources, Business, Business, Ethnic groups, Law, Mines and mineral resources, Real estate development, Urbanization, Women
Publisher: San Francisco, A.L. Bancroft & Company
Collection: getty; americana
Contributor: Getty Research Institute
Language: English
Item Size: 622.0M

Theodore Augustus Barry (1825-1881) and Benjamin Ada Patten (1825-1877) established their credentials as California pioneers by arriving in their adopted state before January 1, 1850. Men and memories of San Francisco (1873) gives later arrivals a detailed picture of the city as it existed a few months before California statehood. They describe the streets and the residences and business that lined each thoroughfare and alley as well as the men and women who owned those homes, boarding-houses, hotels, restaurants, saloons, stores, offices, and shops. They also chronicle the fire of May 1851 which destroyed so many of the structures they describe. While they focus on the city as it was in early 1850, their sketches of its residents extend further, often forming capsule biographies of their subjects